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John F. Byrne
John F. Byrne

New York Times, Saturday, February 22, 1964

1-Across : River of song.

Author:
John Byrne
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
John F. Byrne has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
John Byrne is an alias for John F. Byrne.
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,319
Across
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River of song. : AFTON
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Terminate. : CEASE
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Coruscated. : GLEAMED
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Skier's paradise. : VERMONT
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Run wild. : RAMPAGE
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Classify. : ARRANGE
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Finnish name for Turku. : ABO
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Wrinkled. : RUGATE
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Pattern. : NORM
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Artist Chagall. : MARC
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Indian of northern Washington. : SAMISH
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Knock. : RAP
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Lucine of the Met. : AMARA
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Dry: Fr. : SEC
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Brisk. : ALIVE
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"Remember the ___!" : ALAMO
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Nine-to-five grind. : RATRACE
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Washington, for one. : VIRGINIAN
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Distracted. : FRANTIC
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Rialto group. : ASCAP
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Laminated rock. : SLATE
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Chinese pagodas. : TAS
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The whey of milk. : SERUM
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Pinnacle. : TOR
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Posture. : STANCE
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River bank. : RIPA
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Raw materials. : ORES
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Nihilist. : ANARCH
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Nepal peak. : API
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First African republic. : LIBERIA
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Hero of ancient tale. : ALADDIN
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Copy desk workers. : EDITORS
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Daylight show. : MATINEE
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One at ___. : ATIME
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Poetic pronouns. : THEES
Down
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The Kearsarge sank her, 1864. : ALABAMA
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Of a certain bone. : FEMORAL
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Spigot. : TAP
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Caliph of 634 A.D. : OMAR
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Hot spiced wine. : NEGUS
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Proserpine's mother. : CERES
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Blunder. : ERR
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To ___. : AMAN
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Made prominent by resonance. : SONORIC
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Practice an art. : ENGRAVE
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Pasture grass. : GRAMA
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Great painter of the ballet. : DEGAS
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Roman enclave. : VATICAN
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Vale of ___, in Greece. : TEMPE
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Certain books. : AMERICANA
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Masculine finery. : CRAVAT
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Badger. : HARASS
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Chemical extracts. : AMINES
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Cavalry soldier. : LANCER
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Table scrap. : ORT
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Señora's relative. : TIA
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Spanish gypsies. : GITANAS
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Full of blooms: Sp. : FLORIDA
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Cheese dish. : RAREBIT
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Opera role. : ARIADNE
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Popular pets. : PUPPIES
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Neckpiece. : STOLE
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Blow! : SCRAM
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"Remember the ___!" : MAINE
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To keep secret: Fr. : TAIRE
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Brilliance of success. : ECLAT
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Egyptian king. : SETI
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Poetic verb form. : HATH
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Book of the Bible: Abbr. : ROM
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Fade away. : DIE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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